Reportedly Barack Obama's Director for Counterterrorism,
the diminutive 30-something Tomason is said by Wikipedia to be "one of the most secretive women in
U.S. intelligence circles", so much so that her master's thesis, written while attending Harvard's
Kennedy School of Government, is now classified by the U.S. government as top-secret, as reprehensible
a violation of academic principles as possible.

Getting The Lead Outby MamaLiberty
I was always aware of the dangers of lead poisoning, but had not investigated how
serious it can be related to shooting, and how really simple it is to prevent contamination. A recent
article inspired me to do much more investigation of the potential problem, and I must say the new
information has reinforced the need for the nominal precautions I've been taking—and spurred me to
much greater efforts. I asked Nathan Barton, a specialist in hazardous waste disposal, to give his
take on this topic as well.
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I Votedby Paul Bonneau
Well, the last time I was down at Oregon DMV getting my latest badge of slavery,
the DMV bureaucrat asked me if I wanted to register to vote. At first I said "No,"—almost "Ugh,
no,"—but then I reconsidered and thought that I might as well vote against tax hikes. So at that
point I became the proud owner of not just one, but two badges of slavery.
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Two Weeks in Greater Appalachia: A Tale of Two Tomsby Jeff Fullerton
Crunch Time is thankfully done! And ditto for Election Day this past week; which
was destined to be the day I became disenchanted with the political process in a way I haven't been
in a long time. Probably since the election in 96. The mood seems much like then or the early 2000s
when I had recently finished the greenhouse and was in the process of making improvements in and
around it. And this year—the year of the Renaissance Summer & Renaissance Autumn going into
Winter has been a lot like those years with the shift in direction.
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Neale's Gun Rant for 11-9-2014by Neale Osborn
I suppose I must address the recent elections. Obama got his ass kicked, and
the Republican leadership won't realize they can actually totally de-fund Obamacare, thus killing
it until they have the White house. Other than that, it was just another round of choosing which
side of the "Boot-On-Your-Neck Party" coin was going to have control—neither will have it all.
And I guess that's as good as it can get these days....
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Chapter Three: The Once and Future King
An excerpt from the forthcoming Only the Young Die GoodA sequel to Sweeter Than Wineby L. Neil Smith
Gazing out of his floor-to-ceiling penthouse windows, overlooking
New York City's famous Central Park, the former king of Peru conversed with the most trusted
of his minions via Skype. He had been born to live in the electronic age, he thought. He loved
computers and fancy telephones. He asked, "Did it give any indication of why she went to Texas,
of all places?" Texas was a mystery; to him, it was completely unknown territory.
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So that's what all that "republic not democracy"
stuff was about! I thought is was just people
saying silly things so as to not think.

Eric S. Raymond has an important article that
explains what's up with the "Politically Correct"
or "liberal" nonsense that's going on. Short
explanation: Stalin!:

Americans have never really understood ideological
warfare. Our gut-level assumption is that everybody
in the world really wants the same comfortable
material success we have. We use "extremist" as a
negative epithet. Even the few fanatics and
revolutionary idealists we have, whatever their
political flavor, expect everybody else to behave
like a bourgeois.

We don't expect ideas to matter—or, when they do,
we expect them to matter only because people have
been flipped into a vulnerable mode by repression
or poverty. Thus all our divagation about the
"root causes" of Islamic terrorism, as if the
terrorists' very clear and very ideological account
of their own theory and motivations is somehow not
to be believed.

By contrast, ideological and memetic warfare has
been a favored tactic for all of America's three
great adversaries of the last hundred years—Nazis,
Communists, and Islamists. All three put substantial
effort into cultivating American proxies to
influence U.S. domestic policy and foreign policy
in favorable directions. Yes, the Nazis did this,
through organizations like the "German-American
Bund" that was outlawed when World War II went hot.
Today, the Islamists are having some success at
manipulating our politics through fairly
transparent front organizations like the Council
on American-Islamic Relations.

But it was the Soviet Union, in its day, that was
the master of this game. They made _dezinformatsiya_
(disinformation) a central weapon of their war
against "the main adversary", the U.S. They conducted
memetic subversion against the U.S. on many levels
at a scale that is only now becoming clear as
historians burrow through their archives and ex-KGB
officers sell their memoirs.

The Soviets had an entire "active measures"
department devoted to churning out anti-American
dezinformatsiya. A classic example is the rumor
that AIDS was the result of research aimed at
building a 'race bomb' that would selectively
kill black people.

On a different level, in the 1930s members of CPUSA
(the Communist Party of the USA) got instructions
from Moscow to promote non-representational art so
that the US's public spaces would become arid and
ugly.
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